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Either define the moment or the moment will define you.

Walt Whitman

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Walt Whitman
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: May 31
Died: 1892
Died: March 26
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Where the earth is, we are.
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These are the days that must happen to you.
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Camerado! This is no book who touches this touches a man.
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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Will you seek afar off? You surely come back at last, In things best known to you, finding the best, or as good as the best, In folks nearest to you finding the sweetest, strongest, lovingest Happiness, knowledge, not in another place, but this place-not for another hour, but this hour.
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There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth.
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Unscrew the locks from the doors ! Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs !
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The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked.
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There was a child went forth everyday, And the first object he looked upon and received with wonder or pity or dread, that object he became, And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day... or for many years or stretching cycles of years.
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